Citizens Bank & Trust Co. v. Reid Motor Co.

Appellants appropriately assign as error: (1) The refusal of the court to strike from the record all of the testimony of the witness Jack Freeze, given on the hearing below, when he declined to submit to further cross-examination; and (2) the admission in evidence of the transcript of testimony of Jack Freeze given in a criminal action against him, to which the defendants were not parties. Decisions of the courts generally support the basic principle upon which these assignments rest.

1. A party has the right to an opportunity to fairly and fully cross-examine a witness who has testified for…